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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἐπαγγέλλω (epangéllō, “to announce, promise”) (from ἐπι- (epi-, “on”) + ἀγγέλλω (angéllō, “to announce”)) + -ίᾱ (-íā).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /e.paŋ.ɡe.lí.aː/ → /e.paɲ.ɟeˈli.a/ → /e.paɲ.ɟeˈli.a/
Noun
ἐπαγγελίᾱ • (epangelíā) f (genitive ἐπαγγελίᾱς); first declension
- announcement
- promise
Inflection
Further reading
- “ἐπαγγελία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἐπαγγελία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἐπαγγελία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- G1860 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.